CCP Layoffs: Dropping VR; Closing Studios

Quoting
a news story out of Iceland,
PCGamesN
has word that CCP is shutting down a couple of offices as the developer moves
away from virtual reality development. CCP recently
launchedEVE: Valkyrie – Warzone, a non-VR version of EVE: Valkyrie, and
while they say they are still long-term believers in VR, they are not dipping
back into those waters any time soon. Word is the closure impacts around 1000
employees in Atlanta and Newcastle, though "many" of them are being offered
other jobs in the company. The have a statement from CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar
Pétursson:

"Despite the success of the VR games we have released we will
be shifting our focus to our PC and mobile initiatives, and will be centralizing
those initiatives, along with the support of our existing VR games, to our
offices in Reykjavík and London," said Pétursson in a prepared statement to us.
"We will continue to support our VR games but will not be making material VR
investments until we see market conditions that justify further investments
beyond what we have already made. I am very proud of our VR games and, more
importantly, of the people here who made them."